Tuesday, February 5, 2008

No sign is a bad sign

That's the message developers of the old Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn appear to be sending with their renderings of the $1.2 billion waterfront condo complex.

The plan to convert the former Williamsburg refinery leaves out the iconic illuminated sign that reads, "Domino Sugar," which generations have grown accustomed to seeing off the East River.

The plans also reveal for the first time a 65,000-square-foot, five-story glass-faced addition to the shuttered sugar plant's main factory, a cluster of three 19th century buildings that date back to 1884 and were declared city landmarks last year.

The developers are slated to go before the Landmarks Preservation Commission today.

Don't you mean that Manhattan activists are fighting to save THEIR VIEW of the sign ?

If it were the other way around, and that iconic signwere located on the western bank of the East River, it would never be under consideredationof being included in the project in the first place.

And all the "hell" that might be raised in the "outer boroughs" of Brooklyn & Queensto save their view of that same sign, would probably amount to a squeak, and that would immediately be ignored by the LPC !

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